Finance Systems Product Manager (Remote)

Aston Carter; United States; Remote; USD 72,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) Plan

Life Insurance

Disability coverage

HSA

Transportation benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Time Off

Job summary

Aston Carter seeks an experienced Finance Product Manager to bridge Finance, business stakeholders, IT and project teams, translating business needs into technology solutions and guiding initiatives from requirements through implementation. The ideal candidate combines finance/process knowledge with product management and hands-on leadership.

This fully remote contract role, based near Richmond, VA, requires ownership across multiple teams, with occasional travel for office visits as needed.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting or leading financial systems implementations.
• Strong finance/accounting business process knowledge.
• Experience working between Finance and IT teams.
• Experience gathering and documenting requirements and workflows.
• Experience facilitating stakeholder interviews, requirements workshops, and cross-functional discussions.
• Experience supporting UAT, business readiness, and implementation activities.
• Ability to take ownership and proactively drive initiatives forward across multiple teams.
• Ability to quickly learn both the business process and technology and contribute to future-state recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Gather, evaluate, and document business requirements for financial systems initiatives.
• Develop a strong understanding of underlying finance business processes and supporting technologies.
• Document application dependencies, process dependencies, cross-functional impacts, and affected systems.
• Facilitate stakeholder interviews, discovery sessions, and requirements workshops across Finance, IT, and other business functions.
• Translate business needs into clearly defined requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and high-level solution recommendations.
• Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring alignment throughout an initiative.
• Coordinate and help lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT), prioritization, business readiness, and implementation activities.
• Support technology evaluation and selection when new solutions or capabilities are required.
• Maintain clear documentation and ensure stakeholders have access to the necessary information.
• Identify risks, dependencies, gaps, and cross-functional impacts that could affect implementation.
• Provide consistent stakeholder communication and support realization/adoption tracking.
• Develop expertise in both the business process and technology to provide informed recommendations.
• Act as the quarterback across Finance, IT, project management, and other stakeholders to keep initiatives progressing.

Skills

Financial systems

Product management

Stakeholder management

Requirements gathering

UAT support

Cross-functional leadership

Technical liaison

Finance knowledge

Tools

Oracle EPM

BlackLine

Job description

Aston Carter seeks an experienced Finance Product Manager to bridge Finance, business stakeholders, IT and project teams, translating business needs into technology solutions and guiding initiatives from requirements through implementation. The ideal candidate combines finance/process knowledge with product management and hands-on leadership.

This fully remote contract role, based near Richmond, VA, requires ownership across multiple teams, with occasional travel for office visits as needed.